Piracy in Somalia
Violence and Development in the Horn of Africa
Awet Tewelde Weldemichael author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:24th Jan '19
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Following six years of extensive fieldwork, Weldemichael examines the international causes, internal dynamics, and domestic consequences of piracy in Somalia.
Somali piracy has exacted heavy economic and human tolls, as well as posing significant security risks. Based on extensive fieldwork over six years, this book provides an in-depth examination of its causes, dynamics, and consequences, thereby filling an important gap for policymakers, scholars, students, and the general public.Piracy in Somalia sheds light on an often misunderstood world, oversimplified and demonized in the media and largely decontextualized in scholarly and policy works. It examines the root causes of piracy in Somalia, its impact on coastal communities, local views about it, and the measures taken against it. Drawing on six years' worth of extensive fieldwork, Awet Tewelde Weldemichael amplifies the voices of local communities who have suffered under the heavy weight of illegal fishing, piracy and counter-piracy and makes their struggles comprehensible on their own terms. He also exposes complex webs of crimes within crimes of double-dealing pirates, fraudulent negotiators, duplicitous intermediaries, and treacherous foreign illegal fishers and their local partners. In so doing, this book will help inform regional and global counter-piracy endeavors, avoid possible reversals in the gains so far made against piracy, and identify the gains that need to be made against its root causes.
'This book is a valuable contribution to the study of Somali piracy.' Kris Inman, African Studies Review
ISBN: 9781108739283
Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 14mm
Weight: 430g
256 pages